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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1886
Page
3
The Freeport brief notes Rockford representation and a council meeting, announces a Central pay car arrival, upcoming institute program, and a Milwaukee excursion. It highlights a reported Illinois Central plan to build a Chicago to Freeport air line with a Dubuque connection, plus local social updates and wedding news.
A brakeman named William Koyme formerly of Frankfort Pa, working for St Paul, died after being pulled under wheels during switching at Beloit Wisconsin. He was about 25, survived briefly after being taken to a physician. Conductor Quirk of the Illinois Central was also killed near Waterloo, after an accident involving a coat catching on a bolt and the train wheels severing his legs.
At Taylor's park on Wednesday afternoon the two favorites Mary Sprague and Charley Boy won their races in a lively program that drew enthusiastic crowds despite light attendance. Mary Sprague, driven by B Rood and owned by John J. Mitchell of Milwaukee, won the 2:95 class and the 2:34 heat series, with Charley Boy of Chicago taking the 2:34 class and the 2:04 trot, while a scheduled match race against Redwood was unfinished due to darkness. The day also featured multiple heats in the 2225 and 224 classes, a vivid display of pacing and trotting talent, and praise for the Freeport association’s management.
In a filed bill the Complainants William Wurst Margaret Furst Frances Foster and A I Poster accuse Benjamin J Reifsnyder Catherine his wife of Philadelphia Eliza A Mayer and Martin Mayer of Freeport Charles R Tawa and Lavina W Haw s of Chicago as heirs of Ab Solomon Telfanyder and the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New York State. They allege the 1860 will of Christian Furst left realty to his wife and to Frances Foster as an adopted daughter and that upon the widow's later marriages and deaths certain shares were to pass to Furst and Foster and heirs. The bill contends the title to various parcels in Freeport and Ordway’s addition passed through the widow and that Reifsnyder had no right to convey others’ interests especially the brick house deeded to the Missionary Society. The case names many individuals and parcels and hinges on trust and inheritance under the Furst will.
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